Wasn't it J Ahlstrom who wrote:
>George wrote:
>>> Well, I've heard 5 percent of people in the US sit in jail innocently.
>> Considering that at least something like 3 million Americans are in
>> jail at each given time (and the number is growing) makes 150
>> thousand people being buttfucked unnecessarily, all because of
>> a need for a superefficient black and white in god we trust justice
>> system. It is easy to play with other people's lives. Apparently
>> conviction is far too often a joke.
>>>> George
>>I hope you mean "5% of the people in US jails are innocent".
>Got any sources?
How could anyone make a serious attempt to calculate that percentage?
Presumably what you'd have to do is take a random sample of the people
in jail, and then determine which of them are actually innocent, and
which of them are actually guilty. However, this seems to require a
method of determining guilt that is better than the existing judicial
system.
--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure